We can rebuild him

Bionic eye will let the blind see

It comprises a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual's eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear.

Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret.

What interests me about this piece is not necessarily the bionic aspect but, again, the software. So we now know how to (roughly) interpret neurological data in the motor cortex to create motion, and we know (we think) how to transmit data to the visual cortex to produce images.

This is still at the raw meat-packing stages of the technology - physically jamming electrons into the occipital lobe a few dozen at a time to produce blurry pseudo-sight. Taken to it's logical future conclusion, though (full-resolution data transmission), can someone equipped with this implant ever truly trust the images he sees? Is there another way of stimulating the chip's electrodes in such a device that bypasses the camera in the eye? I'm getting a Gibson/Stephenson/Watts vibe here that makes me want to dig out and dust off Neon City again.

Care for some antifutureshock meds with your coffee? Warren Ellis knows what he's talking about.